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It's two tropes rather than one.
The first part's due to Scott being the Sentinels worst nightmare, 'cuz his mutant ability is so OP that their shields are rendered useless. So each time they show up, Scott gets free target practice.
The other part with Rogue falls under So Last Season. What what used to be a major threat is now either manageable, or only a minor nuisance due to the cast growing accustomed to dealing with said threat. Or the cast has simply become stronger by then.
Edited by MiinU
Nailed it 4tell0life4. Thanks!
Miinu I appreciate the help. But it’s not “so last season.” As the x-men didn’t train or improve in anyway in between the first and second episode. I don’t believe more than 2-4 days even passed. There was no logical reason given as to why they struggled so much against the first sentinel, but could do easily take on a whole factory of them 2 days later.
But your right about Scott’s ability being so OP. Another good read!
^Ah, I missed the part where you said it was only "one episode later". My mistake.
Hi! long time reader of TV Tropes, first time poster. I spent the last...well more time than I should trying to find this trope but can't. But I am sure it must exist.
The trope is when a person or group of people take on a single enemy and it takes all they have to bring it down. But later on the inevitably find a whole group of these enemies and say something along the lines of "It took everything we have to just beat one of these things, how can we fight a whole army of them?" and then of course they proceed to take down said enemies far more easily than they did the first one.
An example of this trope that always stuck in my head since a kid was X-men the animated series episode 1 and 2 "night of the sentinels." Where the first sentinel they encounter in the mall takes a beating from gambit, storm, jubilee and even rogue and keeps marching. Managing to take out 3 of the said mutants and capturing jubilee. Eventually cyclops take the sentinel out.
In the next episode they have to fight a whole factory of sentinels and rogue makes the statement "how can we fight a whole group of these things." which they then proceed to do with...well ease.
You see this all the time in action movies and cartoons. Surely there is a trope page for it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
thanks for any help.